I suppose 'rate' shouldn't be deprecated actually considering I've only moved from r2 to r3. I assume the version number change would be more significant if there were API changes.

EDIT:
Trying to re-emerge transcode v1.0.2-r2 failed. I get this error before the later errors:

Code:

ERROR: requirement failed: cannot compile ffmpeg/avcodec.h
ffmpeg/avcodec.h can be found in the following packages:
FFmpeg http://www.ffmpeg.org

When I examine the active use flags for ffmpeg I notice several are not enabled anymore. Perhaps a profile change altered things --I have no idea. The problem may involve use flags. I'm going to fiddle ...

Well, I can't figure out the problem at the moment. I doubt it's use flags.

I recompiled ffmpeg, but I still can't recompile transcode v1.0.2-r2 (not that I even know if down-grading would fix the problem.) Following are the transcode compile errors, the ffmpeg use flag settings and the transode use flag settings.

EDIT: One thing I'm going to check is compiling without mmx/sse/sse2 which are newly active use flags for some reason. I'm on a AMD64 system with (if I remember properly) no compatibility libraries (I don't think this would affect such things, but I'm at a loss).
EDIT 2: Didn't fix anything removing sse/mmx/sse2 us flags.

!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/transcode-1.0.2-r2/temp/build.log'.

It seems my mplayer install can't use the -vo dummy option? The mplayer guys say that theres no such option for -vo, and I should be using -vo null.

Any tips?

This is incorrect, MPlayer does indeed have a '-vo dummy' option. Try this as an example:

Code:

mplayer -vo dummy -identify somefile.avi

Now try this example using '-vo null -ao null' instead:

Code:

mplayer -vo null -ao null -identify somefile.avi

See the difference ?

The reason you are experiencing problems using the script is that MPlayer's text output has changed considerably in later versions. As such 0.32 will only work with old versions of MPlayer, while the new 0.34 version will work with both new and old versions of MPlayer.

Once again, this is because of the MPlayer version changes to it's text output. A correct '-e' option would read '-e <rate>,<bits>,<channels>' (eg. '-e 44100,16,2'). Because the script has failed to extract the correct info from MPlayer, the arguments are invalid and it fails.

This is not the case with the newer 0.34 version, but I do stress that if you are having problems with the script in future to use the bug tracker on the script's project page at http://any2dvd.sf.net , thanks

Hi, sorry for the delay in responding, but I've been away for some weeks. I'm using mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r4 ~amd64 in portage, as suggested in the guide. Your suggestion here does not work, the said command trys to play but fails!

Hi, sorry for the delay in responding, but I've been away for some weeks. I'm using mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r4 ~amd64 in portage, as suggested in the guide. Your suggestion here does not work, the said command trys to play but fails!

the audio from the vob file is being played only in one side. so, I've extracted it from the vob, used sOx do generate all the 6ch and muxed it like [1]here. the final wav plays okay. but when i convert it to ac3 it still plays only in one side. any help?

Creating the menus
[...]
Hide the button_highlight layer & save the background layer.
Do this by selecting the button_highlight layer and using the Opacity slider in the 'Layers, Channels & Paths' dialog box to make it disappear.
[...]
Save the button_highlight layer in the same way. Use the opacity slider to bring the button_highlight layer back up, and hide the background layer.

Just a quick tip: it is a lot easier to hide the layer by clicking on "eye" icon just at left of layer name. Maybe you should edit the first post to point this easier way of hiding layers.

I cannot create a seperate dummy pgc in titles block because of the discontinuity problem
I've deleted the first set command and DvdAuthor then created the LinkPtt (but I need the g1 reset before the chapter jump
I cannot use the Jump title 1,chapter n syntax as it restarts the ttn pre
And it won't let me create a dummy menu without content